Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!ziggy!usfvax2!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tradeoffs Message-ID: <2673FFAA.40B9@tct.uucp> Date: 11 Jun 90 20:31:37 GMT References: <27416@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <.5X3-ZB@xds13.ferranti.com> <671@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 11 According to ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall): >The code for emacs (including pre loaded lisp) is around 600K. This >doesn't seem so bad if you stop thinking of it as a text editor, and >start thinking of it as a language interpreter which runs an editor >among other things. From bloated editor to bloated interpreter. Sure, big improvement. -- Chip, the new t.b answer man ,